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Stand Up and Get Care: A Healthcare Campaign in New Orleans Ariel White (former City Accelerator New Orleans project lead with 504 HealthNet) After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August of 2005, the city was fundamentally changed. As the community came back to rebuild a devastated city health care organizations and local leaders usedRead more

How can text messages encourage people to see a doctor? Lessons from New Orleans Joseph Boskovski and Owen Phillips If you haven’t seen a doctor in a long time, the thought of picking up the phone to schedule an appointment can be terrifying. Sometimes it’s easier to adopt an “out of sight out of mind”Read more

11/2/2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel White, 504.206.6275 Info@504HealthNet.Org Health Insurance Marketplace Open for AllNEW ORLEANS, LA — This week marks the beginning of open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace. Starting on November 1, local organizations are mobilizing to help Greater New Orleans area residents sign up for health insurance coverage through the HealthRead more

Dear Friends and Colleagues, 504HealthNet and the Tulane Internal Medicine Residency Program are pleased to present you with the first quarterly Clinical Care Newsletter. 504HealthNet is a non-profit organization that represents the outpatient safety net providers for the Greater New Orleans area. Through work with member organizations like the Tulane Drop-in Center, Tulane/Ruth Fertel Clinic,Read more

NEW ORLEANS—504HealthNet executive director Susan Todd released the following statement on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. “It has been ten years since our city was changed momentously by Hurricane Katrina. In the past decade we have grown in ways we could not have imagined. Through the rebuilding process the city has increased the number ofRead more

Some had no place to go or no wheels to take them. The sick and the elderly waited helplessly. Thousands stayed for their pets or figured they’d just ride it out as they had before. In a pinch, there was always the Superdome. Roxy Wright was too connected to get stuck like that. Wright countsRead more

Access Health Louisiana (AHL) is marking National Health Center Week 2015 (NHCW) with a special Voter Registration Drive as well as a Coloring Contest for Children in all its Community Health Centers in seven parishes in south Louisiana. This is part of a weeklong campaign (Aug. 9-15) to raise awareness about the mission and accomplishmentsRead more

NEW ORLEANS — As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, the city has begun an all-out effort to let people know there is treatment for the difficult emotions that people may be feeling. “Images of those stranded and their stories of survival are seared into our minds and our souls forever,” said Mayor MitchRead more

By the time patients arrive at Dr. Monir Shalaby’s office at the EXCELth clinic in New Orleans, they have run out of options: Most have little or no income, no health insurance and, usually, a heap of health issues. Ten years ago, their options shrunk to nothing when Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge breached the levees,Read more

Sign up during the Marketplace Special Enrollment Period March 15-April 30 and avoid paying a fine in 2016. Visit one of these events and get in person assistance with enrollment. To qualify for the special enrollment, all of the following should apply: You are not currently enrolled in a health insurance plan You did notRead more